Vol. XII.
No. 43.
WHY WE ARE
AT WAR WITH
GERMANY
By
EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS
Executive Head History Depart
ment
Leland Stanford Junior University
“The object of tí is war is to deliver
the free Leoples of the world from the
menace and tie actual power of a vast
military establishment controlled by an
irresponsible government, which, having
secretly planned to dominate the world,
proceeded to carry out the plan without
regard either to the sacred obligations
cf treaty or the leng-establis ed prac
tices and long-cherished principles of In
te national action and honor; . . . This
power is not the German people.
It is
the ruthless master of the German peo
ple. ... It is our business to see to
It that the history of the rest of the
world is no longer left to its handling.”
—President Wilson, August 27, 1917.
GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS AN IN-
CULCATED BARBARISM
A government asserting its rit;ht to
conquer the world, denying any duty
except that of increasing its own
power, and a people drilled in this
theory, produce a nation whose ai:i
horrify humanity. Yet those acts are
but the logical result of a ruthless
ness in war deliberately planned. It
was at first said by Americans: “Yes
there are occasional German atrocities
no doubt, but so there are in every
war.” We now know that cruelty and
barbarism are a definite part of the
German method of making war.
First the teachers and professors
“Where German soldiers had to seize
the incendiary torch, or even to pro
ce ed to the slaughter of citizens, it
was only in pursrance of the rights
of war.” “One single highly cultured
German warrior represents a higher
intellectual and moral life-value than
hundreds of the raw children of nature
whom England and France, Russia
and Italy, oppose to them.” "Even if
there were no question of vengeance.
. . . the crime of opposing the de
velopment of Germany is so great that
the most trenchant measures are
scarcely a sufficient punishment for
it.” “The more pitiless is the vae
vieti», the greater is the security of
the ensuing peace. In the days of old,
conquered peoples were completely an
nihilated.
Today that is physically
impracticable, but one can imagine
conditions which should approach very
closely to. total destruction.”
Next the army officers: “By steen
Ing himself in military history an
officer will be able to guard himself
against excessive humanitarian no
tions; it will teach him that certain
severities are indispensable to war.
nay, more, that the only true humanity
very often lies in a ruthless applica-
tion of them.' “The warrior has need
be
of passion. It must not
regarded as a necessary evil: nor con
demned as a regrettable consequence
of physical contact; nor must we
seek to restrain it and curb it as a
savage and brutal force.”
Last the clergy: one incident, and
one quotation from an address on the
Sermon on the Mount is enough for
Americans. “Whoever can not prevail
upon himself to approve from the
bottom of his heart the sinking of the
Lusitania. . . . and give himself
up to honest delight at this victorious
exploit of German defensive power—
him we judge to be no true German.”
German teaching has borne fruit and
the world is aghast. Yet we have be
come so accustomed to “German
atrocities” that some of our horror at
them has waned. It Is wiser to re-
member. Volumes are needed to list,
merely, the prored cases of barbarity
Saturday, July 13, 1918
SUPPLEMENT TO THE HERMISTON HERALD
—for Germany by refusing investiga W. J. WARNER
tion through a neutral jury proposed
by Cardinal Mercier, has confessed
guilt. No. rather, she acknowledges
OREGON
the acts charged against her and glo HERMISTON.
rifies them.
But let us not forget that German J. T. HINKLE
soldiers, in 1914 with no restraint,
raped the women of Belgium and
OREGON
France in the first advance; that they HERMISTO
placed screens of children before
them; that they executed, as a warn
ing against a feared Belgian rising,
fifty innocent Catholic priests and
i thousands of innocent citizens; that
they gave themselves up, “in a hun
We have a full line of Shoes for
dred different places, to plundering
incendarism, imprisonment, massacres
| and sacrileges” (Cardinal Mercier):
¡ that in France they have deliberately
made a desert of territory in retreat,
with an object, not of this war, but
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openly applauded Turkey upon the
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massacre of nearly one-half the popu
lation of Armenia: that Germany, by
| the cruel starvation and deportation
“THE SHOE MAN”
of conquered populations is attempt
ing to “Germanize” the lands of Po
I land and Russia; that she torpedoes
hospital ships with “defenseless
beings, wounded or mutilated in war,
and women who are devoting them
selves to the work of relief and char
jity” (protest of the International Red
Cross Committee at Geneva > ; that no
other government, in the world’s his
—FOR—
tory, ever ordered or approved a
Lusitania.
This war is lost, and a greater will
follow it, unless it is fought to the
point where Germany knows for all
time that such acts are, in the end,
fatal to the government that commits
them.
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Have You a Dodge Miniature?
There are today a very large number
of homes in America where'the most
treasured possession is a small old fash-
ioned miniature, painted some time be
tween the years 1828 and 1870. most
likely, and which bears in tiny, unos
tentatious lettering the name of the
artist. “J. Dodge." if the miniature
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Petty Spite.
Tile late Mirs, in z Mi holland Boisse-
vain, the sulfrage worker. had a frank
nature, and I thing was more objec-
tionable to her than spitefulness.
"There is too much petty spite,” she
said one day. "am ng women who pre
tend to be friends.
•Two women sat at tea in a Fifth
avenue restaurant.
“There goes Mr. Smith in his new
car.’ said one of the women. She add
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"Why? Did he tell you you were
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me you were.”'
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